The New American War Film
Book description
A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
While the war film has carved out a prominent space within the history of cinema, the twenty-first century has seen a significant shift in the characteristics that define it. Serving as a roadmap to…
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There is no better or more incisive scholar writing on American historical films today than Robert Burgoyne.
Making use of both social and film theory, his books, including this latest one, are elegantly written and sharply focused. Less interested in its historicity than in the way a film reflects the shifting values of our rapidly changing society, this book analyzes nine works made during this century, including important films such as Zero Dark Thirty, American Sniper, and The Hurt Locker.
Among many insights the work contains, the most important is that the changing nature of warfare exhibited…
From Robert's list on books on historical films.
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